Facing the question of the structure of theology (metatheology), this doctoral thesis aims to observe the nature of theology from a gnoseological point of view. In this perspective, this work focuses on two levels: on one ...

This research analyses Moneta of Cremona’s main work. Moneta of Cremona was a Master of Arts in Bologna, then he became a Dominican preacher. His Adversus catharos et valdenses, written in 1241-44, is an anti-heretical ...

In the broad setting of the medioeval Scholasticism, between the 13th and the beginning of the 14th centuries, few theologians put the focus on one question: the angelic sin. That is: how is it possible that, according to ...

The thesis arises from the critical proposal to consider Marsilio Ficino’s Epistolae as the philosopher’s favourite place for the discussion of the main themes of his speculation. Ficino’s preference for the short-treatise ...

In 1238, Robert Grosseteste, bishop of Lincoln, began to translate and comment on the Corpus Dionysiacum. Until now, no complete assessment of Pseudo-Dionysius’s contribution to Grosseteste’s thought has been attempted. ...

Il nodo centrale che cercheremo di affrontare in questo saggio è la teoria della materia di Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, quale si può ricostruire dai pronunciamenti sparsi nella sua opera. Il riferimento obbligato in questo ...

This dissertation about William of Conches and the Dragmaticon Philosophiae is divided into two sections. The aim of the first section is to reconstruct the life and the literary works of one of the most important teachers ...

The aim of this Doctoral work is double: (a) to offer the complete edition of three important distinctiones – the second, the third and the eighth – coming from the Sentence Commentary of the Franciscan John of Ripa, who ...

This research is aimed at clarifying the relationship between philosophy and theology in the works of Alan of Lille, who is termed by his contemporaries Doctor Universalis also because of his figure of unfailing polygraph ...

Since the end of the 19th century, the history of Augustinian historiography has been characterized by numerous and varying attempts to find breaking points in Augustine’s philosophy and life, as well as strong interests ...